There is simply no way these insurance exchanges can be up and running in little more than a year. Come 2014 many Americans will lose insurance from employers, find they cannot afford a private plan and make too much to qualify for Medicaid. With no exchange available they will be without health care coverage and then be faced with a fine as a result.
Yep! I am in that boat already. I lost my job (and group health) in 2009. I now work two jobs (without benefits) to avoid having to take welfare. I don’t. I have a mild pre-existing condition, and have endured several rejections from insurance companies, and so you would think I would embrace Obamacare, but no, I see it as the Socialist/Democrat power grab that it is. But, I was able to find affordable catastrophic insurance, which does not cover much but does stand between me and financial ruin. Now, catastrophic insurance will now be outlawed under Obamacare. I cannot afford the insurance options the exchanges will offer (I have looked into this). And I make above $41,600, the level at which a single individual can qualify for government assistnce. And so, I will have to go without healthcare and be labeled a “freeloader” and fined. I will REFUSE to pay the fine. They could keep back the amount of the fine in my refund, but I have already started withholding LESS from my paycheck so that I will never be due a refund, and I will then subtract the penalty amount from the check that I write to the IRS. If they come after me, well, I will at least die a free man.
This is a POOR country and becoming more POOR every day we fall headlong into communism.
“Let me give you statistic. If you make $60,000 a year, you’re in the top 10% of wage earners in this country. If you’re at $60,000 or up, you’re in the top 10%.
This wage wouldn’t pay my insurance bills.
BTW, $60k is also the TAX FREE amount of benefits I hear many of the takers are getting. What does that tell you about 90% of the chumps who are working?
This will cause people to change their withholding to where very is deducted by the Feds,and then they will not file their taxes at the end of the year. Within a year or two, the cost of conformance will be so high, that it will have to be repealed.
You're missing the point... People who are frightened they might be forced to live in pain for years become easy to control. ObamaCare has nothing to do with health care - it has to do with revenge. If there had been ONE person in the United States who was forced to do without medical care (before ObamaCare) the New York Times and other suck-up members of the MSM - would have run stories about that person on the front page and on nightly news every night.
NO ONE was doing without medical care. That's going to change. People will suffer - people will do without - and the effing MSM won't care. Because their boys won... and they're looking for revenge too. But that's another story.